Leidesdorff estate papers, 1844-1852.

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Leidesdorff estate papers, 1844-1852.

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Accounts and legal papers (originals or copies) pertaining to the administration of the estate of W.A. Leidesdorff. Each item cataloged separately. Part I - Papers relating to Leidesdorff's land grant. Part II - papers relating to W.D.M. Howard's administration of the estate. Part III - Papers relating to Joseph L. Folsom's administration of the estate.

Originals: 1 box (.2 linear ft.)Copies: 1 microfilm reel (201 frames) : negative (BNEG Box 2884) and positive.

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Leidesdorff, William A. (William Alexander), 1810-1848

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William A. Leidesdorff, early California trader and official, was born in the Danish West Indies of a Danish father and mulatto mother. In 1841 he came to California as master of the ship "Julia Ann." He engaged in trade between Hawaii and San Francsico, and afterwards began a general exporting business in San Francisco. Leidesdorff became a Mexican citizen in 1844 and received a grant for Rancho Rio de los Americanos, east of Fort Sutter. The next year he was appointed vice-consul of the United...

Folsom, J. L. (Joseph Libbey), 1817-1855.

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Hays was the San Francisco sheriff. From the description of Letter to John C. Hays : San Francisco : ALS, 1850 Nov. 11. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 215336413 ...

Cowan, Robert Ernest, 1862-1942

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Robert Ernest Cowan was born in 1862 in Toronto, Canada; came to San Francisco in 1870; student at UC Berkeley 1882-84; San Francisco bookseller from 1895-1920 and author of bibliographies of history of California and the Pacific Coast; librarian for William Andrews Clark, Jr., 1919-33; moved to Los Angeles at Clark's request in 1926; Cowan's collection of books and manuscripts form the nucleus of the UCLA Dept. of Special Collections' holdings in Californiana; married Marie Margaret Fleissner i...

Norris, Thomas W. (Thomas Wayne)

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Howard, William Davis Merry, 1819-1856.

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